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In inelastic collision their is loss of energy and according to my current knowledge energy can be transferred by either work out heat...Now The problem is that we use law of conservation of momentum in problems related with inelastic and if energy is transferred from our system (two masses) then some of the energy is transferred by the means of work which involves force and if mass exerts force on surrounding then equal and opposite force is exerted to mass according to Newton's third law, now if their is some external force then momentum should not be conserved.